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Erik ten Hag is described as being on a “main collision course” with the INEOS Sport workforce over the long-term way forward for Antony at Manchester United.
Steve Bates (GiveMeSport) reveals the brand new govt construction at Outdated Trafford – who gained full management over the soccer operation following Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s ratification as new co-owner of the membership – will undertake a “extra ruthless strategy [to] under-performing gamers than the earlier regime.”
Omar Berrada, signed from native rivals Manchester Metropolis to be United’s new Chief Government, believes gamers have “one to 2 years” to show themselves, or else they need to be shipped on.
Beforehand, underperforming gamers had been allowed to stay at Outdated Trafford within the naïve hope of enchancment. Gamers similar to Anthony Martial and Donny van de Beek are nonetheless below contract with United, regardless of a number of years of proof they’re nowhere close to the requisite degree.
Fabrizio Romano reveals this stagnant strategy “received’t occur with the brand new board”, spearheaded by Berrada. And if there was one participant who embodies underperformance, relative to their preliminary switch price, it’s Antony.
The Brazilian winger was signed from Ajax in the identical summer time Ten Hag relocated to Manchester from Amsterdam.
Regardless of inner scouting reviews valuing Antony at round £25 million, United officers, in a panic, sanctioned an £86 million transfer for the winger within the last weeks of the switch window.
What has adopted has been a collection of shows which exhibit the scouting workforce have been being beneficiant of their evaluation.
Antony hardly resembles a Premier League-level participant; not to mention some of the costly purchases within the league’s historical past. He’s bodily incapable of succeeding in English soccer, nor possesses the productiveness to justify his weak and sluggish type.
Whereas Ten Hag usually performed Antony final season, whatever the high quality (or lack thereof) of his performances, even the Dutchman has seen sense this 12 months, dropping the Brazilian rather than Alejandro Garnacho.
As he approaches the tip of his second 12 months at Outdated Trafford, Bates contends the brand new govt construction have already positioned Antony “within the firing line” this summer time. Studies recommend the membership can be prepared to settle for as little as half the price they paid Ajax for his companies two years in the past.
Nevertheless, Bates reveals Ten Hag will “resist try to dump the winger this summer time – even on mortgage.”
It seems the Dutch supervisor retains hope he can nonetheless extract the kind of performances which led him to foyer United to signal Antony within the first place, regardless of a wealth of proof on the contrary. The reporter believes this will put Ten Hag at loggerheads together with his new employers for the primary time.
